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it is time to stop rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies and having the government treat every american the same, which is a foundational principal of the rule of law. and i think mitt romney has to do more of that. has he been specific with his plan? he laid five out in the debate, which is more than the president did. that's why independents thought mitt romney did very, very well. >> let me ask you about one of the issues where they differ, medicare. that is a big deal in florida romney says he supports vouchers for medicare, a plan that is not very popular. how does play in florida with all those seniors? >> right now in florida, you've got about 12 million registered voters. 36% who are republicans, you have 40% who are democrats. and then the 24% or the remainder is going to be the most important percentage in america and i think it's 24% who are not registered republican or democrat. these are going to be the most important voters in the united states. but, let's look at medicare. you have mitt romney who says, i want to give you vouchers, which i personally don't agree
it is time to stop rewarding our friends and punishing our enemies and having the government treat every american the same, which is a foundational principal of the rule of law. and i think mitt romney has to do more of that. has he been specific with his plan? he laid five out in the debate, which is more than the president did. that's why independents thought mitt romney did very, very well. >> let me ask you about one of the issues where they differ, medicare. that is a big deal in...
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and the government should give it to them. and they will vote for this president no matter what. >> last night, two and a half weeks after that tape surfaced, government romney went on fox news where he was asked how he would have answered if the tape had come up in wednesday's debate. here's part of his answer. >> clearly in a campaign with hundreds, if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right. in this case i said something that's just completely wrong. >> he said "completely wrong." that's completely weird namely because the night the tape aired, mr. romney rushed to a microphone to defend his 47% remarks. he kept defending them and hounded supporters for days after that. >> it's not elegantly stated, let me put it that way. i'm speaking off the cuff in response to a question, and i'm sure i could state it more clearly in a more effective way. >> the point of all this is the size of government is too big, and if we don't do something ab
and the government should give it to them. and they will vote for this president no matter what. >> last night, two and a half weeks after that tape surfaced, government romney went on fox news where he was asked how he would have answered if the tape had come up in wednesday's debate. here's part of his answer. >> clearly in a campaign with hundreds, if not thousands of speeches and question and answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out...
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and liberties are limited as government expands liberty contracts a simple fact of the matter is that if you look over the last sixty seventy years and you aggregate republican administrations and democratic administrations you had g.d.p. growth far more substantial in democratic administrations than republican administrations popular is that simple fact of the matter i also hope she will grow the economy grow government has to grow in proportion and it's going to do its job but so there has to this i want to go there because i know that they wrote a lot of conservative eat those is laid bare right here they are for the growth in government as well and there really is a little side to this debate there is the individual versus the collective and so you see right now what a joke it is this debate that we're having in this country right now because no matter who wins are you are you are you asserting that there is no such thing as society the society is merely a collection of that's correct because the process is that was such a system so certainly they could have it was the distinction
and liberties are limited as government expands liberty contracts a simple fact of the matter is that if you look over the last sixty seventy years and you aggregate republican administrations and democratic administrations you had g.d.p. growth far more substantial in democratic administrations than republican administrations popular is that simple fact of the matter i also hope she will grow the economy grow government has to grow in proportion and it's going to do its job but so there has to...
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building up a strong system of government, institution of government libya in particular build gadhafi never wanted an institution that would rival his him. every political faction within libya has weapons and obviously at least one of them or more used them on the consulate a few weeks ago. >> eliot: what i hear you saying, and what i think is critically important after the revolution after the sort we witnessed and facilitateed in lib y things evolve. and the president used the phrase, there will be bumps in the road. the arc of any evolution is that it evolves over time. diplomacy could be a problem when it is so needed. >> there is a strategy, turning the opposition that overthrew gadhafi into a functioning government and help that government blow a popular support--grow a popular support. that will take time. there is a strategy, but where romney gets it wrong is that that strategy will depend most significantly on what happens inside these countries. it's not about imposing a solution from the outside. >> eliot: i think for purposes of his campaign he wants to overstate and estim
building up a strong system of government, institution of government libya in particular build gadhafi never wanted an institution that would rival his him. every political faction within libya has weapons and obviously at least one of them or more used them on the consulate a few weeks ago. >> eliot: what i hear you saying, and what i think is critically important after the revolution after the sort we witnessed and facilitateed in lib y things evolve. and the president used the phrase,...
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of labor plays games with these numbers for political reasons is silly ludicrous, and insulting to government workers who have reported news, good and bad faithfully for many decades. it strikes me, jack, that there have been a few more cases of corporate gamesmanship with financial numbers than cases where the government was not honest in the past few years. in fact, didn't your company g.e. have an accounting issue led to a big sec settlement not so long ago? now that you've made this outlandish claim, where is your proof, your evidence, the facts to substantiate you're certification, or is it just a partisan screed? you might remember when my office charged ge then under your leadership with a range of i am preprity we had the proof and the judge forced you to take out a full-page add admitted to your i don't think doing. the key jack, the evidence and facts. but more importantly why should anybody be surprised that we're finally digging out of the trough? i know the corporate titans want to believe that until their taxes are cut to zero nothing good will happen. but here is the thing. ove
of labor plays games with these numbers for political reasons is silly ludicrous, and insulting to government workers who have reported news, good and bad faithfully for many decades. it strikes me, jack, that there have been a few more cases of corporate gamesmanship with financial numbers than cases where the government was not honest in the past few years. in fact, didn't your company g.e. have an accounting issue led to a big sec settlement not so long ago? now that you've made this...
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pile of money in the whole world, the largest amount of discretionary money spent on anything by our government, boy howdy is there a difference here. but for a guy who wants to be thought of as cheap, as thrifty, for his campaign to be thought of as tough on spending, to be proposing that radical a spike in a pile of money that's already unimaginably enormous, to get us back to korean war levels of spending and then some, he must really have some big idea he's really committed to to justify that. to justify such a radical change in expense. he must, right? this must be something he he knows a lot about and cares a lot about. right? >> about our commitment to our military effort in terms of building a military that's prepared for the eventualities of a future that's hard to predict. back in 2008 during the presidential debates, there was no discussion of terrorism. >> no. >> and yet a year later, the world was changed. so it's very difficult to predict precisely what will develop in the the world. >> hold on. that was mitt romney today speaking to a roundtable of retired generals after his big
pile of money in the whole world, the largest amount of discretionary money spent on anything by our government, boy howdy is there a difference here. but for a guy who wants to be thought of as cheap, as thrifty, for his campaign to be thought of as tough on spending, to be proposing that radical a spike in a pile of money that's already unimaginably enormous, to get us back to korean war levels of spending and then some, he must really have some big idea he's really committed to to justify...
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pbs gets $23.2 million from the government. big deal. do you know how much sheldon adelson would get under mitt romney's tax plan? a savings of over $2 billion, 22 million versus $2 billion. that's just one guy. that's the real big bird. now, that's not all. how about bush's tax cuts no romney wants to extend them and add 20% on top. if you just extended the bush tax cuts it would add a trillion dollars to our deficit. why? mcmitt romney is looking out for the rich speaking of which, how about the iraq war? mitt romney was in favor of it, the entire republican party. how much did that cost? is this estimates have it as high as $5 trillion. and you're talking to me about big bird? you're talking to me about big bird? $22 million you want to cut and your dumb ass war cost $5 trillion. your tax cuts for sheldon adelson cost $2 billion. i'm not having the conversation about big bird and cutting down his nest until we talk to the other guys first. on the essence of that, the obama campaign is right. >> when we come back, the republicans are s
pbs gets $23.2 million from the government. big deal. do you know how much sheldon adelson would get under mitt romney's tax plan? a savings of over $2 billion, 22 million versus $2 billion. that's just one guy. that's the real big bird. now, that's not all. how about bush's tax cuts no romney wants to extend them and add 20% on top. if you just extended the bush tax cuts it would add a trillion dollars to our deficit. why? mcmitt romney is looking out for the rich speaking of which, how about...
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it's spent on propping up other governments. here we are funding funding fune insurgents in syria, and a quart of the insurgents are supposed to be al qaeda? didn't we do this in afghanistan? didn't we really ultimately bank role osama bin laden? we haven't learned anything. what we aught -- ought to have learned is military interventions make enemies to the united states of people that are affected by these. these drone strikes? yeah, we hit the target but we wipe out another quarter block. we kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians living in these countries that were ostensibly we're there to help? we're just continuing to make more and more enemies. it's no surprise that the unrest in the middle east is occurring right now. i would get out of our embassies in the middle east. why are we giving targets to demonstrators that are just looking for targets in the middle east? that is not showing weakness. it's showing we've got some common sense. where is the common sense? >> host: next call from lawrence, new york. eric is o
it's spent on propping up other governments. here we are funding funding fune insurgents in syria, and a quart of the insurgents are supposed to be al qaeda? didn't we do this in afghanistan? didn't we really ultimately bank role osama bin laden? we haven't learned anything. what we aught -- ought to have learned is military interventions make enemies to the united states of people that are affected by these. these drone strikes? yeah, we hit the target but we wipe out another quarter block. we...
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corruption the past government corruption comes in corruption comes in when the government can transfer and when you ask the amounts of government money to private individuals to further their bets w. bush well that's the basis of. five hundred or five hundred million dollars in one direction how long i've hundred million dollars going to the president's cordy's which which funds the out of that and evaluation department said most of the energy department said this will do. this will fail on x. date and it failed on x. date and yet there seems to be no discussion whatsoever of a couple points here first point is when we would they were giving out no bid contracts at all which is the oil but if there was no tea party out here protesting doesn't point one point two when president obama took office hold on a second when president obama took office we only had one percent of the green battery technology degree battery industry now the united states competing against china japan and germany with twenty percent of them are world market share battery technology because the president made inves
corruption the past government corruption comes in corruption comes in when the government can transfer and when you ask the amounts of government money to private individuals to further their bets w. bush well that's the basis of. five hundred or five hundred million dollars in one direction how long i've hundred million dollars going to the president's cordy's which which funds the out of that and evaluation department said most of the energy department said this will do. this will fail on x....
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the government has not. they have increased expenses. >> i think you have to look at the spending side of the ledger. the president said in the debate we need to look and medicaid because it is the biggest driver debt right now. so there has to be a focus. entitlements will have to have a serious look. reform is going to be necessary in order to change the way we are spending money. if we want to continue to ensure that those will need to benefit the benefit in the future. but everything can be examined. every business in this country, every single day examines what they are spending money on antheil, making sure manufacturing processes are lean, making sure there's no waste. government can do the same. states do that all the time. john engler is a great example as a former governor. i worked for a former governor. states often times, lead the way on fiscal responsibility. >> the role of government is one of the big issues in the campaign. whether you believe government is an enabling or a hindrance. it seem
the government has not. they have increased expenses. >> i think you have to look at the spending side of the ledger. the president said in the debate we need to look and medicaid because it is the biggest driver debt right now. so there has to be a focus. entitlements will have to have a serious look. reform is going to be necessary in order to change the way we are spending money. if we want to continue to ensure that those will need to benefit the benefit in the future. but everything...
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government with the politicians stealing to the people the people are suffering only cards. for the working people to flourish chunks of the greek population looking increasingly isolated from the political class that's far from alone from greece to spain to italy sterett he has pull your isn't economies to the knees and with unemployment particularly amongst year is used now reaching epic heights people have simply had enough if this looks like a familiar sight because it is one we think many times before in recent years so in cognise with standoff between the riot police and protesters. along the streets and people standing around this is the result of years of austerity this is one of thirty means in real a population that is being pushed. it's breaking point you can see all of the side streets of the can't stand of happening perhaps this will be the wake up call to eurozone leaders as the crisis drags on and on the protests are growing larger and more frequent where there were one schools to ease the pain of the cuts now many people simply want out altogether have to lea
government with the politicians stealing to the people the people are suffering only cards. for the working people to flourish chunks of the greek population looking increasingly isolated from the political class that's far from alone from greece to spain to italy sterett he has pull your isn't economies to the knees and with unemployment particularly amongst year is used now reaching epic heights people have simply had enough if this looks like a familiar sight because it is one we think many...
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that governance less effective and what do you think of the majority government something many other countries rely on that. a partnership government has exhausted both its capacity and agenda it was necessary previous stages but not any longer right now everyone even the people of iraq feel that the regime of national partnership keeps our hands tied hinders our development stands in the way of the breakthrough not what iraq could make in the development of infrastructure. services sector economic recovery we hear more and more voices now in our society and in parliament are calling for a shift to majority government to make parliament united sort of can pass decisions and laws they would help to rule because right now the government that's paralyzed it can't do anything partnership originally built to pursue a major breakthrough has now degraded to a partnership the generates obstacles because of that we need a majority government and i am working hard to make it a reality both iraqi government and its citizens still suffer from regular terrorist attacks who's behind the violence i
that governance less effective and what do you think of the majority government something many other countries rely on that. a partnership government has exhausted both its capacity and agenda it was necessary previous stages but not any longer right now everyone even the people of iraq feel that the regime of national partnership keeps our hands tied hinders our development stands in the way of the breakthrough not what iraq could make in the development of infrastructure. services sector...
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but all right we have been irresponsible with government spending. romney, bring the tough love. what are we going to lose? >> i don't want any change to medicare for current seniors or for those that are nearing retirement. no change in social security for those that are in retirement or near retirement. >> jon: all right, so it's immoral debt but hands off the core entitlements! they've literally been grandfathered in-- grandmothered. (laughter) probably the more peripheral entitlements got to go. >> i'm going to make sure we have the kind of training programs that give people the skills they need for the jobs of today. >> jon: okay, so hands off chinese language instruction programs. (laughter) i guess the cuts are going to come from big spending boon doog stuff like defense. >> i'll restore our navy to the size needed to fulfill our missions. by building 15 ships per year, including three submarines. >> jon: it may sound fiscally irresponsible -- (laughter) -- but with three submarines just seven more and america gets a free sandwich! (cheers and applause) so big defense proj
but all right we have been irresponsible with government spending. romney, bring the tough love. what are we going to lose? >> i don't want any change to medicare for current seniors or for those that are nearing retirement. no change in social security for those that are in retirement or near retirement. >> jon: all right, so it's immoral debt but hands off the core entitlements! they've literally been grandfathered in-- grandmothered. (laughter) probably the more peripheral...
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strategy saying that what the government's doing basically is hoping that something will turn up but not doing enough to kick start greece themselves and there was nothing really in the speech to contradict that something else i noticed was that he didn't say the word austerity once and that something i've seen was hanging around on the. branches of this conference over the last couple of days conservatives don't like the word austerity anymore they use these euphemisms they say tough decisions they say reducing the deficit they say reducing the government sherif spending it's not fashionable to say the word austerity very uncomfortable with it so it's strategy not hugely coherent which is very important of cameron wants to regain this reputation is had in the past for huge compton's also did he address fears that the vulnerable will suffer most from the cuts and the economic strategy that he's proposing he tried but he's really the only one at this conference who did he delivered a classic conservative message she said smaller government talked about aspiration less about hard work
strategy saying that what the government's doing basically is hoping that something will turn up but not doing enough to kick start greece themselves and there was nothing really in the speech to contradict that something else i noticed was that he didn't say the word austerity once and that something i've seen was hanging around on the. branches of this conference over the last couple of days conservatives don't like the word austerity anymore they use these euphemisms they say tough decisions...
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a government board will actually make decisions? because the obama camp says just not true at all. >> this is called the independent payment advisory board. and romney kind of makes it sound like uncle sam is going to come into your hospital room or this is only seniors. so mrs. smith's hospital room and says i know your doctor says you need a hip replacement and i'm government and you do not. this is not what this board is going to be let me tell you what it is going to be. if midcare p getting crazy and high and out of hand, this board will sit down and say are we overpaying for certain kinds of procedures? are we letting hospitals charge us way too much money for, let's say, a routine hip replacement, and if they are, if they're charging us too much money, let's say they're charging us just to be silly, $100 for hip replace am, maybe we'll -- >> it's a little more than an hour from now. >> last night's presidential debate was viewed by conservativetively 50 million viewers. i would really like to think that this is the only place
a government board will actually make decisions? because the obama camp says just not true at all. >> this is called the independent payment advisory board. and romney kind of makes it sound like uncle sam is going to come into your hospital room or this is only seniors. so mrs. smith's hospital room and says i know your doctor says you need a hip replacement and i'm government and you do not. this is not what this board is going to be let me tell you what it is going to be. if midcare p...
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>> well, actually, big bird doesn't get money from the government. in fact, the money that comes from the government into the corporation for public broadcasting doesn't come to pbs, it goes to our member stations. so that is actually what is at risk if, in fact, we are defunded because the money is going to stations across the country in aggregate our money is 15% of our budget. when you look at it station by station, some stations, particularly in rural parts of the country, they are a part of the federal budget is 50% to 70%. those stations will go off the air. for people sitting in communities across the country, that is at risk. that is the consequence if, in fact, our money is zeroed out. for the 40 years of our history we have been a great public private partnership and we take the federal money and leverage that with resources that we raise. >> i want to talk a little bit about jim lehrer. critics this morning just annihilating his performance last night. what did you think of jim lehrer's performance? >> i thought it was a very complicated d
>> well, actually, big bird doesn't get money from the government. in fact, the money that comes from the government into the corporation for public broadcasting doesn't come to pbs, it goes to our member stations. so that is actually what is at risk if, in fact, we are defunded because the money is going to stations across the country in aggregate our money is 15% of our budget. when you look at it station by station, some stations, particularly in rural parts of the country, they are a...
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because that is what undergirds this entire debate is how we see the role of government. so romney gets caught on this 47% videos saying, in fact, that there are too many americans who feel entitled to health care, to food, and to housing. they feel entitled to health care, food, and housing. i ask you a direct question. are americans entitled to those three things? >> a good society insures those things for its citizens. and that helps make its citizenry healthy, productive, active and dynamic. and the countries that are successful in this world right now, the country with low unemployment, with the lack of priority, with the skills and the ability to compete internationally, the countries like sweden or germany or the netherlands or denmark or norway, they do not say we have to slash taxes and get rid of government. they say we have to make sure that every child in our country has a chance, has a decent education, has the job skills they need. we have to make sure our roads, our infrastructure, our power grid, we have to make sure we ege investing in cutting ant science
because that is what undergirds this entire debate is how we see the role of government. so romney gets caught on this 47% videos saying, in fact, that there are too many americans who feel entitled to health care, to food, and to housing. they feel entitled to health care, food, and housing. i ask you a direct question. are americans entitled to those three things? >> a good society insures those things for its citizens. and that helps make its citizenry healthy, productive, active and...
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listen, cutting all the funding to pbs would not fund the federal government for one hour. that's how small a percentage that is, federal funding for public broadcasting. so swing voters know this isn't serious. they know they aren't hearing serious proposals. >> i want to play for everybody those people who are for president obama, their reaktss after this disappointing show on wednesday. >> i think he could have done better. >> i think that president obama is -- needs to put his gloves on and fight back. >> i didn't know quite what was going on as far as, you know, maybe he's dealing with some crisis in the middle east. >> i think maybe he needs to rest. >> looking for easy excuses for the president there, but for those undecideds around the country, those looking for passion from a candidate, didn't mitt romney display more passion about wanting to get hired for a job? >> yeah. there's no doubt that he had a better night, and everyone has conceded that, including the president's supporters. and i think when you look, the biggest thing to me was the president's closing st
listen, cutting all the funding to pbs would not fund the federal government for one hour. that's how small a percentage that is, federal funding for public broadcasting. so swing voters know this isn't serious. they know they aren't hearing serious proposals. >> i want to play for everybody those people who are for president obama, their reaktss after this disappointing show on wednesday. >> i think he could have done better. >> i think that president obama is -- needs to put...
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it's a government takeover of our health care. >> greta: besides the issue of the government health care takeover, which is for many people, you know, it's a political issue. i am curious, the list of things that you have outlined tdoesn't seem particularly wise. what stands out most to me is where you say it covers 10 million more people without adding a single new doctor. that was probably one of the things you pointed out that i thought was the most devastating. >> correct. >> greta: what are you going to do about it? >> what am i going to do about it? given the opportunity you know, i am running for senate in illinois, given the opportunity, when it comes dun to the state level, it should be repealed and defunded and real reform instituted. i think i want to add that governor romney, one of his strongest statements in his campaign has been that he will do what the supreme court didn't do on the last day in session. he will do on his first day in office. and that is to repeal it. >> greta: what's been the reaction? i know it has gone viral on the internet. obviously, we are interested
it's a government takeover of our health care. >> greta: besides the issue of the government health care takeover, which is for many people, you know, it's a political issue. i am curious, the list of things that you have outlined tdoesn't seem particularly wise. what stands out most to me is where you say it covers 10 million more people without adding a single new doctor. that was probably one of the things you pointed out that i thought was the most devastating. >> correct....
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welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour based on what the government tells you and what that means stream media reports to you you probably think america is out of iraq right rob wire american special forces back in iraq and when will this miserable chapter in american history finally be finished also we all know mitt romney would have no foreign policy of it in the head and now fox news is trying to make president obama look like a foreign policy quack too is this the right's plan the heading into november and their so-called october surprise for american voters and from paper and pens to computers and desk chairs staples business model as all of your office needs covered unfortunately staples business model has the destruction of the american economy covered to tell you winds and eyes. in the most of the rest of the news this week the two thousand and three u.s. soldier was killed in afghanistan this is the nation's longest running war and it's also the forgotten war the two thousand death of an american soldier didn't get near the attention it deser
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if your father is elderly, would he not be any government program like medicare? host: i'm sorry, he is not on the line, but talk about how that works in massachusetts. it is -- is it different than anyplace else in the country? guest: i do not know the particulars of the circumstance, but if you are elderly, the government program for older people is still there. masshealth, and i do not know the particulars, but my understanding is that as for the working poor, the people that have some income, but cannot qualify for medicaid or do not have a private insurer. so, i am not sure. i would have to look into that more. host: thank you. from twitter -- who enforces romney care, a separate agency, or does the tax man take that role? how was it enforced, christine mcconville? guest: it depends. in a nutshell, if you do not have insurance, the state department of revenue figures that out when you file your massachusetts taxes, and a fine you. the state, when they said everybody has to have insurance, created a new quasi- public agency called the massachusetts house conne
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it is all about that jobs number, and the fed's commitment to help the government try and get americans back to work here. worth also saying that even though they are optimistic about an improvement in this jobs number, the fed's own economic outlook suggests that we're going to see a few weak quarters going forward, and economic growth doesn't really start to get traction until 2013 into 2015. so we could be treading water for quite some time here. interesting to see what that now means for obama's election campaign as we come up to this big presidential vote. back to you. >> and we will see that number less than three hours from now, the september jobs report. geoff, thanks so much. >>> still ahead this morning on "way too early," a little thursday night football for you with the undefeated arizona cardinals taking on the rams. turns out when your quarterback is sacked eight times, it bodes poorly for your chances. highlights ahead in sports. >>> plus -- >> there is no red america! there is no blue america! there is only the america that can't. believe how bad this guy did in the deba
it is all about that jobs number, and the fed's commitment to help the government try and get americans back to work here. worth also saying that even though they are optimistic about an improvement in this jobs number, the fed's own economic outlook suggests that we're going to see a few weak quarters going forward, and economic growth doesn't really start to get traction until 2013 into 2015. so we could be treading water for quite some time here. interesting to see what that now means for...
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that is his no. 1 job in his branch of the government. he did talk about strengthening our military -- he did not mention anything about strengthening the military which mitt romney did mention that he was going to keep the government strong. my biggest issue is the economy right now, but also if you look at the middle east crisis, iran, libya, and some of these other countries, if war breaks out in the middle east, and with the oil problem and fuel shortages, if you think our grocery stores can get into when there is two or 3 inches of snow coming down, imagine getting our oil cut off, and this crisis with our american embassies being under attack. >> so when it comes to the economy, which was the discussion tonight, it did get anything from either of the candidates about what they were talking about as far as policy or anything like that? >> i would have to just say what the president said four years ago, if he could not cut the deficit in half, he does not deserve to run again. i don't have anything against him, but a lot of people cal
that is his no. 1 job in his branch of the government. he did talk about strengthening our military -- he did not mention anything about strengthening the military which mitt romney did mention that he was going to keep the government strong. my biggest issue is the economy right now, but also if you look at the middle east crisis, iran, libya, and some of these other countries, if war breaks out in the middle east, and with the oil problem and fuel shortages, if you think our grocery stores...
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government because this. is the first thing we should do the. combined with. food i think the issue of what is true let's go there without the us is the third most is going to be reserved. in they do the experience anything more for the b.b.c. to. do because it goes on at least for its. good people but this soon. so so far into government limits this set of measures did not only going to just going to do just. that as an take continues to mount in greece we're also covering the latest protest on our website r t v dot com the full timeline of the european crisis also waiting for you online plus. dangerous cam a story a tunisian children's magazine publishes a step by step recipe for a molotov cocktail. and join a songe is set to publish a book on freedom of the internet inspired by the cypherpunks activist group that appeared on his exclusive show for our team you can find the full interview and the details on our website. rock obama's rival for the u.s. presidency mitt romney has called for a more aggressive foreign policy in the middle east which would includ
government because this. is the first thing we should do the. combined with. food i think the issue of what is true let's go there without the us is the third most is going to be reserved. in they do the experience anything more for the b.b.c. to. do because it goes on at least for its. good people but this soon. so so far into government limits this set of measures did not only going to just going to do just. that as an take continues to mount in greece we're also covering the latest protest...
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they expect food from their government. well, you know, tamron, call me carl marx, but i believe the richest nation on earth should provide food to the old, to the young, to the disabled, to the mentally disturbed. the people who can't earn enough money to buy their own food. come on. we can do that. that's not mitt romney's view. i think it is difficult to sell his view to a majority of voters. >> we will see tomorrow how he explains that comment and his view for the rest of the country who do not make millions of dollars but certainly deserve a voice. thank you very much, roger. a pleasure having you on. the possible impact of the debates is part of the nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that debuts tonight on "nightly news." how important will the presidential debates be in helping you decide who to support for president? 38% said extremely, while the majority, 62%, said somewhat and not much. mark murray, is that in line with what we've seen when that question is posed before? >> it's an increase in the people that say
they expect food from their government. well, you know, tamron, call me carl marx, but i believe the richest nation on earth should provide food to the old, to the young, to the disabled, to the mentally disturbed. the people who can't earn enough money to buy their own food. come on. we can do that. that's not mitt romney's view. i think it is difficult to sell his view to a majority of voters. >> we will see tomorrow how he explains that comment and his view for the rest of the country...